Dr. Raj Panjabi Warns of an Impending “Viral Apartheid” If We Don’t Change Our COVID-19 Approach

As nations around the world scramble to bring coronavirus outbreaks under control, Dr. Raj Panjabi is worried that the world’s poor populations will be excluded from accessing treatments and prevention measures, a scenario he calls “viral apartheid.” “I don’t use that term lightly,” said Panjabi, speaking with TIME Senior Writer Alice Park during a TIME … Read more

America’s Assisted Living Residents Are Falling Through the Cracks of COVID-19 Response, Families Say

On May 7, Craig Martin sent what would be the first of many emails to administrators at the company that runs The Wellington at Lake Manassas, his mother’s assisted living facility in Gainesville, Va. Another resident had tested positive for COVID-19 days earlier while being treated at a local hospital, and Martin and his brother … Read more

Administration initially dispensed scarce covid-19 drug to some hospitals that didn’t need it

The first tranche of 607,000 vials of remdesivir were delivered in some cases to the wrong hospitals, to hospitals with no ICUs and therefore no eligible patients, and to facilities with no available refrigeration, according to nine current and former senior administration officials. View original article Contributor: Yasmeen Abutaleb